Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the problems that I see is the lack of having doctors and medical professionals in our communities. They come into our communities once a month. They are in for a day or so and they are gone again. Has the department looked at increasing the number of visits by doctors and medical professionals to our communities, say twice a month instead of just coming in once a month?
One of the concerns was that they should maybe have the ability for the clinics to be open later into the evening, or having the doctors there so people who are employed in the community have an opportunity to see these doctors and do not have to be put on a waiting list.
Is there a possibility of increasing the number of doctor visits to our communities, so we do not have a situation such as Ms. Blake, where she went to the health centre in February and was not medevaced to Inuvik until April, almost two months later?
What are you doing to increase the medical services to our communities regarding this type of situation, so that we can get better services in our communities?